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Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts

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Jeremy Nicoll wrote: 
> On Wed, 5 Jan 2022, at 13:35, Paul M. Foster wrote:
> > Folks:
> >
> > I just restarted my machine, and am using Thunderbird 91.4.1 (the 
> > latest) 64 bit on Debian 11. I didn't reinstall Thunderbird or upgrade 
> > it...
> 
> I've never used TB so these questions might be crazy ...
> 
> Is TB able to import a set of mails stored in a folder somewhere 
> else on a machine?

That's the capability that appears to have gone away.

> Does TB have filter capabilities that affect what happens with 
> mails as they're imported, perhaps separately from mails
> that are fetched from somewhere?

Yes.

> If those work, would one need a separate mechanism to get 
> the mails currently accumulating in "mail spool" or wherever
> into (exported?) a folder from which the import could pick 
> them up?

As previously mentioned, the mechanism for that is now "set up
dovecot or another IMAP server".

-dsr-

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Thunderbird not allowing local accounts "Paul M. Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2022-01-05 14:40 +0100
  Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2022-01-05 15:20 +0100
    Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts "Paul M. Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2022-01-05 15:50 +0100
      Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-01-05 18:00 +0100
        Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2022-01-05 19:40 +0100
          Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-01-05 21:50 +0100
          Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts conover@rahul.net (John Conover) - 2022-01-05 21:50 +0100
            Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-01-05 22:20 +0100
            Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2022-01-06 08:40 +0100
              Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2022-01-06 16:30 +0100
                Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2022-01-06 21:10 +0100
              Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts "Jeremy Nicoll" <jn.ml.dbn.25@letterboxes.org> - 2022-01-06 16:30 +0100
            Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2022-02-07 03:20 +0100
        Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts rhkramer@gmail.com - 2022-01-06 02:30 +0100
        Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2022-01-06 09:30 +0100
          Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-01-06 15:00 +0100
      Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2022-01-05 19:50 +0100
        Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2022-01-06 11:50 +0100
          Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-01-06 15:00 +0100
        Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2022-01-08 08:00 +0100
          Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts "Bob Crochelt" <rfc56@fastmail.com> - 2022-01-08 15:40 +0100
      Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2022-01-06 09:50 +0100
        Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts didier.gaumet@gmail.com - 2022-01-06 10:20 +0100
  Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts "Jeremy Nicoll" <jn.ml.dbn.25@letterboxes.org> - 2022-01-05 20:30 +0100
    Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-01-05 21:10 +0100
      Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts "Jeremy Nicoll" <jn.ml.dbn.25@letterboxes.org> - 2022-01-05 21:20 +0100

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